Samuel Beckett described his short stories as “Bottled Climates”, the idea that there is some kind of airless containment where things may or may not happen. The “internal rooms”  Brierley's paintings are spaces carved out of her imagination, in making them she more often than not starts with thinking about theatre and Beckett. Drifting in and out of these spaces is the animate/inanimate thing, something between presence and absence, not always specified.

Recently the parts of bodies have become more recognisable as figures though they are not always wholly material. The rooms are basic, pared down, often containing water as a life force. The paint is left to slowly move across the surface, sometimes interrupted by the disruption of a mark or gesture. Brierley wanted to mirror the feeling of the slow passage of time, punctuated by the interruption of absurdity. 

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Selected collections:  

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SOR Rusche Sammlung, Berlin.

Olbricht Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany.

MURDEME (Damien Hirst) Collection, UK.

Robin Woodhead CEO, Sotheby's International.

Reydon Wiess Collection, Germany.

Robert Peter Miller, Robert Miller Gallery NYC.

Michael und Anna Haas, Michael Haas Gallery, Berlin.

 

​M.A. Communication Arts at the Royal College of Art, London

M.F.A. Goldsmiths, London